celebrated triumph and its TINA (‘thereisnoalternative’) doctrine. The uprising of the Ejército Zapatista Liberación Nacional
(The Zapatista Army of National Liberation – EZLN) against the Mexican army
and the federal government was a ‘cry of dignity’ and demanded land, food,
housing, health, education and work for the communities.24 Their goals were not
restricted to local or even parochial problems, but were more universal. Their
demands for democracy and their concerns about neoliberalism and its subsequent
economic injustices intersected with environmental issues

, that thereisnoalternative to the system’.68 As with
the defining description and the essential details of Jewesbury and O’Beirn’s distinctive, difficult historical urban tours, utopian form demands, as Jameson says,
‘meditation on the impossible, on the unrealisable in its own right’.69
Jewesbury and O’Beirn’s historical tour project for Belfast Exposed was conducive to imaginative digression as much as to actual physical wandering. The artists’ small, cheaply printed pamphlets –​disposable, ephemeral things, rather than
authoritative-​seeming publications